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MattO



Joined: 18 Feb 2013
Posts: 12
Location: Chelmsford, Essex
PostPosted: Mon Feb 18, 13 9:10 pm    Post subject: Hello from claggy, clayey Essex Reply with quote
    

What a great find this forum has been. I have been browsing for a few days and found it useful so thought I'd dive in and sign up.

I garden for a living and do a lot of grow your own in my own time and at work so I may be able to be of use in the gardening forums but other areas seem to be a goldmine of info for padding out my 'I will do that one day' dreams!

I'm about to start a project making hot beds warmed by horse manure which seems like just the thing the members here would be interested in so over the coming weeks I will share my experiences in the GYO forum as its totally new and experimental to me too...

Rusticwood



Joined: 01 Dec 2009
Posts: 2154
Location: All over the South West
PostPosted: Mon Feb 18, 13 9:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hello from sunny Devon

dpack



Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45372
Location: yes
PostPosted: Mon Feb 18, 13 9:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

i used raw manure under a topsoil for overwintered salads in a large plastic cloche. seemed to work well ,priming it with "mixture" see archive helps fermentation

historically used for fruit etc in glass houses

NorthernMonkeyGirl



Joined: 10 Apr 2011
Posts: 4584
Location: Peeping over your shoulder
PostPosted: Mon Feb 18, 13 9:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hello

Find yourself some Victorian glasshouse manuals, they were into hot beds

Went



Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 6968

PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 13 8:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hello and welcome from Asturias...

Green Rosie



Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France
PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 13 8:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Bonjour from sunny France - and it's been a while since I was able to say sunny

Bebo



Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex
PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 13 9:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hello from almost equally claggy Sussex. Used to be a bloke on the allotment we had in London that built a mahoosive hot bed every year to grow pumpkins in. About four foot tall. Always had the best crop of squashes on the allotment.

mousjoos



Joined: 05 Jun 2006
Posts: 1986
Location: VERY Sunny SW France
PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 13 5:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hello from sunny France (for the time being)

how I miss dear old claggy Essex.........

Nicky cigreen



Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9702
Location: Devon, uk
PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 13 5:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

welcome

Liz in Ireland



Joined: 27 Jan 2009
Posts: 1287

PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 13 10:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Welcome from soggy Ireland

Mithril



Joined: 22 Jul 2011
Posts: 1755
Location: wessex
PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 13 12:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Welcome

Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford
PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 13 10:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We have tons of horse poo. There must be a way of building a bed above it to catch the heat, and still allowing fresh poo to be dumped there.

Reckon you'd also want glass above to keep the heat?

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